Targeted audience

• Flash students who have completed a 16 week semester course on Introduction to Flash
• Adult learners age 25 and above
• Have no programming experience or formal training in Scripting (except for basic action scripts in Flash)

Learning Styles - Student will need

• Visuals with short text description that can help illustrate concepts
• Analogies that can help reinforce concepts
• Hands on practice

Tutorial Objectives

• Understand customized interactivity and authoring using programming scripts available in the software application (Flash MX 2004 Actionscript Panel)
• Object Oriented Programming definition and concepts
• Understand programming syntax and terminology application: Object Statements, Classes, Properties, Operators,
• Variables, Methods, Functions, Loops and Arrays
• Timeline, movie clips, and buttons controls via scripting
• Target and paths
• Retrieve and manipulating object properties
• Create events and triggers
• Build and use functions
• Create logic statements
• Creating and utilizing simple and multidimensional arrays

Upon successful completion of the course, student's projects must exhibit the following:

• Understanding and programming terminology application from software application
• Movie timeline and other movie objects controlled in a non-linear fashion via programming
• Personalized user experienced interactivity
• Have dynamic data exchange through collection and tracking of data input/output
• Exchanging and manipulation of data from external sources.
• Understand and know how to debug and trouble shoot problems in projects

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